Historic center of Berlin - Tour in Italian

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  The tour with an Italian guide starts at the meeting point of Potsdamer Platz no. 10 (S/U-Bahn Potsdamer Platz). Look for the blue bicycle by VIVE BERLIN TOURS, you will easily recognize the flag with our logo!

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Potsdamer Platz

  One of the most famous and certainly, the most modern, squares in Berlin and an excellent starting point for the Italian tour to discover the best of the German capital. The guide will introduce you to the history of Berlin and show you the great and tragic changes of the city.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  Topography of Terror

  Together with the guide, you will visit this symbolic place in Berlin and understand how the Nazi dictatorship is remembered today, exactly where the headquarters of the Gestapo and SS were located. From here you can also see buildings such as the former Nazi aviation ministry, the beautiful Martin Gropius Bau museum and, especially, an original segment of the Berlin Wall.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4
  Checkpoint Charlie

  Surely this place in Berlin was for a time the hottest point of the Cold War. The guide will talk about the construction of the Berlin Wall and the division of the city in the time of the communist dictatorship.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5
  Aviation Ministery of Berlin

  This huge and imposing building was built by the Nazi dictatorship to house the offices of the Ministry of Aviation led by Goering. At the time of the Cold War it was the 'home of the ministries' of the Communist dictatorship. Today it is used as a ministry by the Federal Republic of Germany.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6
  Fuhrerbunker

  The place where the Bunker was and where Hitler spent his last days. With the guide you will understand the meaning of the place and the reasons for its present.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7
  The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

  You will be impressed by the stories that the guide will tell you in this place of great emotion. A symbol in Berlin to remember the greatest crime committed by the German state in the time of Nazism.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8
  Reichstag Building

  The seat of the German Parliament. Visit only outside, the guide will be pleased to explain how to book a visit to the dome of the building.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 9
  Brandenburg Gate

  The most famous gateway to Berlin. One of the city's landmarks and the most photographed by visitors. The guide will tell you the story of the Brandenburg Gate, from the symbol of a king's strength to that of the Cold War, to become one of the symbols of German reunification.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 10
  Unter Den Linden

  You will walk through this great avenue, once the access road to the emperor's palace. The guide will show you how to recognize the various periods of construction and the wounds left by the war.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 11
  Bebelplatz

  The square of the burning of books during the Nazi dictatorship but also the square where there is the seat of the famous Humboldt University and the Catholic Cathedral.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 12
  Book Burning Memorial at Bebelplatz

  Discover, thanks to the guide's narrations, the monument that remembers the sadly famous burning of books during the Nazi dictatorship: a propaganda action remembered today in a very significant memorial placed in the center of the square.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 13
  Humboldt University (Humboldt Universitat)

  Get to know the history of this very important university and find out who its most famous students have been.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 14
  Berliner Dom

  In the idea of the emperor who had it built, this impressive church must have been the equivalent of St. Peter's for the Luetrana religion.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 15
  Museum Island

  The most known island of Berlin, UNESCO World Heritage Site. The guide will finish the tour in one of the most famous places in Berlin and will give you all the directions to continue to visit the city in the best possible way. At the end of this tour you will have understood the soul of a city so complicated by such an exciting and tragic history.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

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